Gustavo Rodriguez Baltar
Fellow
Montevideo
Gustavo Rodriguez Baltar is a Fellow of Oxford
Leadership Academy™, Uruguay. For the past 35 years, Gustavo has been
involved in groundbreaking projects for the development of
entrepreneurial leaders of national and multinational companies.
As a born networker, Gustavo created, founded and managed the
EXCEL project, an 'Excellent Center for Entrepreneurial Leaders'
aimed at fostering corporate development. As part of EXCEL's
programme, Gustavo organised over 50 events in Uruguay and abroad
for its members with the participation of top-notch consultants
from different countries.
He is also founder and main shareholder of GRB Language
Services, a company that has been providing tailor-made language
training as well as language consulting and translation services
since 1987. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as a fulltime
Management Consultant and Advisor to the Board of Directors of
Zonamerica Business and Technology Park.
Since 2004, Gustavo was been managing director, main shareholder
and founder of Advanced Human Systems (AHS.) His main areas
of work are in the application of 'Appreciative Inquiry', an
organisational development process developed by David L.
Cooperrider of the CASE Weatherhead School of Management,
Cleveland.
In 2005, Gustavo pioneered a collaboration between the AHS and
the CASE Weatherhead School of Management to create the Latin
American Management Institute with the purpose of promoting the
study and practice of Appreciative Inquiry. In 2006 he set up
a partnership between AHS and the Institute Vivendo Valores for the
promotion and implementation in Uruguay and Argentina of the
programme 'Living Values in Organisations' developed by Ken
O'Donnell. In 2007, Gustavo established an alliance to allow
to AHS to promote the signature of the UN Global Compact in
Uruguay.
Gustavo was also a founding member and Vice President of the W.
Edwards Deming Uruguay Institute, and he was a guest lecturer at
the Deming Scholars MBA Programme at Fordham University in New
York. Gustavo has been involved with the Oxford Leadership
Academy's Self Managing Leadership™ Programmes since 1998. He
coordinated several key events in Uruguay such as 'Images and
Voices of Hope', 'Call of the Time' and 'Globalisation and
Values'.
He is also a founding member of the Imagine Uruguay Civil
Association, a member of the Executive Committee of Zonamerica
Foundation, a founding member and VicePresident of Instituto W.
Edwards Deming Uruguay and founding member of the
Uruguayan-Canadian Chamber of Commerce.
Leadership Development, Facilitation
Spanish, English